Three of four hospitals still operating in northern Gaza They were attacked, resulting in the deaths of at least nine people.condemned today by the UN, which also confirmed the deteriorating security and humanitarian situation in the south of the sector, where Israel has expanded its offensive.

The attacks affected Kamal Adwan Hospital in Jabaliya (north Gaza), where there were at least four dead and nine wounded, in the center Al-Auda in Beit Lahia, also in the north, where at least five people died, and in Al-Ahly in the capital of Gaza. with an unconfirmed number of casualties, according to the daily report of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

According to the report, even in the south of the strip, medical facilities are surrounded by Israeli forces: in particular, The World Health Organization was ordered to recall its medicines. two warehouses in the area where the Israeli army appears to be planning to operate.

The United Nations insists that Hospitals work in extreme situations due to lack of equipment and overcrowding, and the Gaza Ministry of Health claims that many of these health centers are “overwhelmed by the constant arrival of corpses.”

In its daily report on the conflict, the United Nations highlighted that bombing and fighting by Israeli forces had intensified over the past 24 hours. leaving at least 349 people dead and 750 injured.According to the Gaza Ministry of Health.

Humanitarian aid has been cut by almost half compared to the one that was able to enter during the truce (in which about 170 trucks per day entered Gaza, while only 100 were able to do so on Monday); According to the UN, fuel consumption has been reduced from 110,000 liters per day to 69,000.

“Although it seems impossible, This could lead to a scenario even more infernal than the current one. where humanitarian operations cannot take place,” said UN humanitarian chief Lynne Hastings, quoted in the report.

The second day in a row, The only place in Gaza where humanitarian aid could be distributed was Rafah.close to the Egyptian border, as even southern towns previously relatively free from Israeli offensives, such as Khan Yunis, are now difficult to reach due to the spread of fighting and attacks into these areas.

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That help is also becoming increasingly difficult due to communication problems: On Monday evening, the main telephone and internet company in the area announced that suspended them due to interruptions in fiber-optic lines, shortly after they were partially interrupted in northern Gaza.

According to the report, Israeli authorities are ordering Immediate evacuation in areas of Khan Yunis It was home to approximately 117,000 people before the conflict and currently hosts approximately 50,000 internally displaced persons in United Nations shelters.

Over the past two days this has caused a new exodus of tens of thousands of displaced people towards Rafah, located further south, where, according to the report, many homeless people are camping on the streets.

In addition to the bombings, which led to dozens of deaths in Gaza City and other areas, the UN report condemned the brutal fighting on the Saladino highwayGaza’s main artery and the only escape route for evacuees from the north to south strip, in which at least 17 people were killed, including a family of seven traveling in a car.

The report also mentions attack near a school: 10 dead and 20 wounded The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNRWA) in Jabaliya, northern Gaza, an area that had already been bombed before the week-long truce.

The UN recalls, citing sources in Gaza, that at least 15,899 Palestiniansincluding 198 doctors, 112 UN staff and 77 journalists.

The number of evacuees rose to 1.8 million. almost 80% of Gaza’s total population and 1.1 million people are sheltering in schools and other UN sites.

(EFE)